[spoonitnow strategy] Back to Basics (Part 1): Implied Odds

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Implied Odds Are Underrated

When coming up with the first topic for this series, I asked myself the following question: “What is the basic concept that most players underrate in terms of importance?” I came up with implied odds.

For most people, when you think of implied odds, you think of calling with a chance of hitting a hand so that you can get paid off more than the current size of the pot on future streets. However, implied odds has a much broader set of applications than this. For example, if you make a semi-bluff, you're often relying on implied odds to make your hand profitable. Along these lines, anything you do that takes into consideration favorable conditions for future betting can be considered to fall under the heading of implied odds.

For the sake of this column, we're going to focus on calling scenarios and the things that you need to consider (that you probably aren't considering well enough) when evaluating them.

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